This contains the list of files in this distribution, and optionally descriptions.

META.json

The file containing most meta information about this distributions. Useful for both presenting information to the user as for installing the distribution.

META.yml

This is the legacy meta file. This is mainly useful for bootstrapping on CPAN clients too old to support META.json but recent enough to support configure_requires.

The information for these files is gathered from various sources. The distribution name is taken from the local directory name. The version, abstract and author are taken from the main module of the distribution. Prerequisites are mostly taken from cpanfile, except when injected explicitly (e.g. a configure dependency on Module::Build::Tiny). A metamerge.json or metamerge.yml file can be used to merge any additional meta information you want (including dependencies).

It supports two different workflows, which I call Feedback and Generator. In both cases, additional tools are used for various other authoring tasks such as perl-reversion, scan-prereqs-cpanfile and cpan-upload.

This creates a directory containing all of the files of the distribution.

test

This runs all of the tests of a distribution. It takes two options that can both be negated:

release

Run release tests. Defaults to false.

author

Run author tests. Defaults to true.

run

Run the specified command in a build distribution. It takes one boolean argument:

no-build

This will cause mbtiny not to build the distribution before running the command.

shell

Runs the $SHELL, this is short for mbtiny run $SHELL.

listdeps

List all dependencies of this distribution. By default it prints a list of modules. If the json option option is given, it's printed as JSON instead.

regenerate <files>

This regenerates the given files. If no files are given, it defaults to the four files it can generate: Build.PL, MANIFEST, META.json, and META.yml. You usually want to do this after bumping the version of a module, adding a dependency or adding a file.